Soylent Green: A Mark Bousquet Review

I’ve never watched SOYLENT GREEN because I know how it ends. Dumb. If you are like me and have avoided watching the movie because you know the big twist (which I won’t give away on the odd chance you’ve never heard of the film), rectify that mistake. Because while I knew where SOYLENT ended up, […]

The Ninth Configuration: A Mark Bousquet Review

If you like movies, go watch THE NINTH CONFIGURATION. (It’s streaming on Prime.) I almost don’t want to say anything about it because it’s such a unique film. It’s brilliant and terrible and confused and purposeful. It’s a mess and it always knows what it is. Things happen that have no bearing on anything else, […]

Ratched: S1

2020 Netflix/Further Films/Lighthouse Management+Media/Ryan Murphy Television/ Created by Evan Romansky Developed by Ryan Murphy Music by Mac Quayle Based on the character of Nurse Ratched from “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey and from the Saul Zaentz Company motion picture of the same title 8 Episodes Merriam-Webster defines Grand Guignol as being […]

A Fall From Grace

A FALL FROM GRACE 2020 Tyler Perry Studios/Netflix Written and Directed by Tyler Perry Produced by Tyler Perry/Mark E. Swinton/Will Areu/Michelle Sneed Music by Jay Weigel Cinematography by Terrence Burke Edited by Larry Sexton You walk into a McDonald’s because you’re hungry and you don’t feel like going through the trouble of cooking for yourself […]

Joker

2019 Warner Bros./DC Films/Joint Effort/Bron Creative/Village Roadshow Pictures Directed by Todd Phillips Produced by Todd Phillips/Bradley Cooper/Emma Tillinger Koskoff Written by Todd Phillips/Scott Silver Based on Characters appearing in DC Comics Music by Hildur Guoandottir Cinematography by Lawrence Sher Edited by Jeff Groth In 1989, DC Comics created their “Elseworlds” imprint which allowed comic […]

Us

2019 Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/Universal Pictures Written and Directed by Jordan Peele Produced by Jordan Peele/Jason Blum/Ian Cooper/Sean McKittrick Cinematography by Mike Gioulakis Edited by Nicholas Monsour Music by Michael Abels Saying that fans of Jordan Peele were anxiously waiting for his follow-up to “Get Out” is a serious understatement. “Get Out” was such a cultural/entertainment […]

The BlacKkKlansman

2018 Blumhouse Productions/Monkeypaw Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/Focus Features Directed by Spike Lee Produced by Jason Blum/Spike Lee/Raymond Mansfield/Sean McKittrick/Jordan Peele/Sean Redick Written by Charlie Watchtel/David Rabinowitz/Kevin Willmott/Spike Lee Based on “Black Klansman” by Ron Stallworth When I first heard about this movie I thought it was going to be a remake of the […]

Decoy

Peter Rodgers Organization Original Run: October 1957-July 7 1958 39 Episodes If you’re a casual TV watcher like me then you always believed that “Police Woman” with Angie Dickinson or “Get Christie Love!” with Teresa Graves were the first network TV shows to feature a woman as a police officer. But that was before I […]

Blade Runner 2049

Alcon Entertainment/Columbia Pictures/Scott Free Productions/Torridon Films/16:14 Entertainment/Thunderbird Entertainment/Warner Bros./Sony Pictures Directed by Denis Villeneueve Produced by Andrew A. Kosove/Broderick Johnson/Bud Yorkin/Cynthia Sikes Yorkin Screenplay by Hampton Fancher/Michael Green Story by Hampton Fancher Based on characters from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick Based on his past track record with me, I […]

Isle Of The Dead

1945 RKO RADIO PICTURES Directed by Mark Robson Produced by Val Lewton Written by Ardel Wray Music by Leigh Harline Cinematography by Jack MacKenzie Edited by Lyle Boyer Those of you who are fans of horror movies are probably well acquainted with the career of Val Lewton. Even though he didn’t direct any of his […]